School Teacher Profile

Mr Desmond Png

Chef / Chef Instructor

Profile

Chef Desmond Png hold a Diploma in Culinary from Shatec and has more than 10 years of experience in the F&B industry. During his more than 10 years in the industry, Chef Desmond have work in some of the most prestige establishmentstogether with some of the most well known chef like Chef Otto Weibei ( Director of kitchen of Swissotel and Raffles the Plaza )

Chef Desmond is also very actively in participating in local and international culinary and F&B competition. He has won numerous awards in Singapore and oversea. Chef Desmond has represented Singapore in the Bocuse d’Or 2003 in France, Lyon where the team came in World Number 17th in the competition. The following year, he was also a member of the Culinary National Team where they won Silver in Food and Hotel Asia 2004.

During his stellar career, Chef Desmond has been a brand ambassador for KARA new product series and has been invited as a Guest Chef for the grand opening of Garlic Restaurant. Chef Desmond has been awarded Entrepreneurs by Sembawang GRC 2007-2010 representing Culture group.

In his busy schedule, Chef Desmond still has a passion in imparting his skills and knowledge to the younger generation where he is activity involved in teaching secondary school project. Starting from the year 2008, Chef Desmond has been spending part of his time in teaching secondary school student in the basic of cooking and providing them a better idea of the F&B industry. He has been invited by Raffles Institution to be part of the judging panel for their Final Year F&B project.

With the love and passion for cooking and teaching Chef Desmond goal is to impart his knowledge to the younger generation and improve the standard of the local F&B industry.

Mr Elvin Chew

Chef / Chef Instructor

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Chef Elvin Chew has an Advanced Diploma in Culinary Arts from City & Guilds UK. Chef Elvin started his culinary journey in his tender age of 16 years old as a trainee cook in Shangri – La Hotel Singapore. During his stay in Shangri-la Hotel, Chef Elvin got inspired by the glamour andcolorful life in the F&B industry and started his adventure in the culinary industry since then.

During his more than 10 years of experience, Chef Elvin has worked in many Fine dinning restaurant and hotel. He is also the President of the Singapore Junior Chefs Club the youth arm of Singapore Chef Association.

Chef Elvin has also represented and won numerous competition locally and oversea. In 2008 he represented Singapore in Dubai and won Silver medal in HanS Bueshkens Memorial Trophy Competition 2008 organized by World Association of Chef Society. He also came in overall champion in 2005 in West Australia Oceanafest Salon Olynpia Culinaire Competition. He is alos part of the Dream team to represent Singapore in 2006 Singapore Food and Hotel Asia where they came in silver.

Chef Elvin currently is the Executive Chef in an up market wine bistro. As he started off at a young age, Chef Elvin understand the importance of proper guidance and training for the younger generation, which is why he is very involved in grooming the future chef of Singapore.

Chef Elvin has a certificate in Instructional Skills from ITE Singapore.

Chef Elvin believed that with perseverance and proper guidance, the younger generation of chef will have a brighter future in our Singapore Culinary scene.

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Mr Chee Wai Chin

Lecturer / Trainer

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Mr Chee Wai Chin Graduate with a Master in Business Administration from Saint Leo University in Florida. He has also completed a Specialist Diploma in Franchise Management from Ngee Ann Poly Singapore and Diploma in Retail Management from Stiring University, Singapore.

Mr Chin has 28 years of experiences in the Hospitality and Retail industry locally and oversea. Mr Chin worked as a manager in Mcdonald’s Restaurant in London for 6 years before moving to Malaysia and Singapore as a Area Manager in Sanur Indonesian Restaurant Pte Ltd and Cold Storage.

During his time in Dairy Farm Singapore, he has been nominated as Life Long Learning Award in 2005.

Mr Chin is specializing in the area of customer service training, leadership/ teamwork training, personal development training, retail and hospitality training.